Mark is our Chief Executive Officer. He joined OPM as Chief Economist in 2012, with responsibility for setting the strategic direction of our work in development economics. Before joining us, Mark was Acting Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), an initiative funded by DFID at LSE and the University of Oxford. He was Head of Macroeconomics at BP, and has previously worked in the African and Fiscal Affairs Departments of the International Monetary Fund, on Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, and Egypt. Mark has also worked in Uganda’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Planning.
Mark has a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc from Bristol University. He is a Research Associate of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies at the University of Oxford.
For an example of some of Mark's work, take a look at Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity, the impact of covid-19 on low- and middle-income countries, After the pandemic? A global UK, and our event on expanding development diagnostics.
A letter to the Financial Times from our CEO, Mark Henstridge, published on 4 June 2021, outlining a method by which Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be deployed at scale to benefit low-income countries.
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
New research highlights the need for additional multilateral finance coupled with impactful reform to accelerate post-pandemic recovery.
How can we unlock aid finance to support low-income countries that have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Using epidemiological and macroeconomic models to set out the adjustment to the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
New research highlights the need for additional multilateral finance coupled with impactful reform to accelerate post-pandemic recovery.
How can we unlock aid finance to support low-income countries who have been hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Read OPM’s latest blog by our Chief Economist, Mark Henstridge, discussing a new paper on the imact of COVID-19 on low- and middle-income countries
Low-income countries in Africa face a long hard road to recovery. The UK could catalyse and lead global support and change the future for developing countries.
How bad is the impact of the pandemic on low-income countries? How long will it last? And what can be done to accelerate recovery?